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  title info:
    title: Armies of the late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476
    sub title: history, organization and equipment
  name:
    name part: Esposito, Gabriele
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 178 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: This guide to the late Roman Army focuses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the definitive fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a turbulent period during which the Roman state and its armed forces changed. Gabriele Esposito challenges many stereotypes and misconceptions regarding the late Roman Army. For example, he argues that the Roman military machine remained a reliable and efficient one until the very last decades of the Western Empire. The author describes the organization, structure, equipment, weapons, combat history and tactics of late Roman military forces. The comitatenses (field armies), limitanei (frontier units), foederati (allied soldiers), bucellarii (mercenaries), scholae palatinae (mounted bodyguards), protectores (personal guards) and many other kinds of troops are covered. The book is lavishly illustrated in color, including the shield devices from the Notitia Dignitatum. The origins and causes for the final military fall of the Empire are discussed in detail, as well as the influence of the 'barbarian' peoples on the Roman Army.
  note: Gabriele Esposito.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.
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  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Army
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: Empire, 284-476
  subject:
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  classification: U35 .E87 2018
  classification: 355.00937
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Armies of the past
  identifier: 9781526730374
  identifier: 1526730375
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180924
    record change date: 20190718163208.0
    record identifier: in00004059700